Together with music there has always been a creation of visual impact.
Music can be expressed or even stored with pictures, be it as full
forms, lyrics, covers, photographs, videos or animation. The Electronic
Music Archive (EMA) focuses on the question of „what does electronic
music really looks like?“ The exhibition gathers visuals of electronic
music as a possible artifact of our time. Creating and manipulating
electronic sounds together with pictures has been of great value within
contemporary art for quite some time. The actual realm between art and
music brings upon the context of EMA.

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Erik M

EMA is also a very subjective memory. The archive collects different
artistic statements and stores them as cultural achievement in the
shape of an exhibition. In our time with still growing electronic
memory capacity and yet everyday data being lost for ever this is the
attempt to freeze the moment and hold it still as an exhibition. It is
a cultural and emotional archive that wants to compare our time with
the past time and questions terms like „quality“ or „innovation“. How
can electronic culture be stored? Can memory be evened out as storage
space? Why does electronic memory grow so much faster than cultural
remembering? Is there a future for archives as a place for cultural
remembering?

Georg Gatsas who lives in New York observes closely artists and
musicians in Brooklyn. He is literally seeking to be next to the shown
people and wants to know all about them. Along with the photos of Georg
Gatsas there will be poetry by the New Yorker writer Ira Cohen and some
features by the artists - bands Devendra Banhart, Lizzi Bougatsos,
Brian Degraw, Suicide, Jim O'Rourke (Sonic Youth), Kid606, Erase Errata
und Jim Thirlwell aka Foetus.